The Euro Championship Group Nine qualifier against Finland provides another opportunity to clinch at least a play-off spot, and there remains the outside chance of yet winning an automatic route to Portugal next summer if Italy fail to beat Serbia-Montenegro in Belgrade.

Former Everton midfielder, Pembridge, who joined Fulham on transfer deadline day last week, said: "I think the lads are disappointed they let Mark down and we want to put that right on Wednesday. It wasn't so much the defeat. It was the way we lost it.

"We can still win the group and I think we would be more disappointed if we didn't get the result on Wednesday and then found out later that Serbia had drawn with Italy. So what we've got to do is to make sure we win on Wednesday."

Pembridge said he was not surprised that Hughes had, for the first time, criticised his side following their abject second-half performance in the San Siro stadium.

"We have to make sure it was a one-off and only we can put it right," he added. "The game against Finland is a great opportunity to do that immediately.

"I think Mark knows what the team are capable of and I think he was as disappointed as us that we didn't fulfil our potential in the second half.

"That's the first time it's happened under him and we have to make sure it's the last."

And Pembridge said Wales also owed it to their supporters to bounce back in style. "The fans were absolutely magnificent in Italy and I've never seen away support like it before," he said.

Spurs' midfielder Simon Davies, who filled in at right-back against the Italians, said he was prepared to continue in the role tomorrow, despite the torrid time he was given on Saturday.

"It's new for me there but I'm not complaining because the manager asked me to do a job."

But Davies expects to have more attacking opportunities against the Finns. "If I have to play right-back again, so be it, but we are going to be at home and we should be the team trying to go forward," he added. "I think we owe Mark something."